Introduction
What skills are, how they load, and how they compare to CLAUDE.md, subagents, and MCP.
Claude with Skills
Stop pasting the same instructions into Claude. Start shipping reusable, portable Agent Skills.
Learning path
Basic
Write a skill from scratch, add frontmatter, invoke it by name and with arguments.
Intermediate
Supporting files, dynamic context injection, forked context, and hooks.
Advanced
Agent-driven skills, headless pipelines, plugin packaging, and cross-tool portability.
Reference
- Frontmatter cheatsheet — every field, its type, and an example value
- Substitution variables —
$ARGUMENTS,$N,$name,${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} - Invocation matrix — how skills get invoked
- Headless mode — flags, patterns, piping, CI
- Troubleshooting — skill not found, budget overflow,
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